Model comparison

Llama 2-70B vs Qwen1.5-7B

Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 6 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-7B leads 31.4 to 8.1.

Side by side

Llama 2-70B and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Llama 2-70BQwen1.5-7B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index24.431.4
Released2023-07-182024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked3513

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding10791107

Reasoning Qwen1.5-7B leads

Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts10731065
DTBench41.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard64.9%—
CommonsenseQA 2.050%—
Epoch Capabilities Index113.79—
ForecastBench51.4—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA78.9%—
PIQA82.8%—
WinoGrande80.2%—

Math Qwen1.5-7B leads

Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math10911080
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250%—
MATH Level 53.3%—
GSM8K69.6%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert10391055
MMLU69.9%62.6%
GPQA Diamond26.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ88.6%—
OpenBookQA60.2%—
TriviaQA87.6%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English10451058
LMArena Chinese9951141
LMArena Russian10831006
LMArena French1090—
LMArena German1041—
LMArena Japanese927—
LMArena Korean964—
LMArena Spanish1143—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following10711058

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query10621090

Writing & Preference Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text11151083
LMArena Creative Writing10751035
LMArena Multi-Turn10881062

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-70B better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-70B or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.4 vs 32.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Qwen1.5-7B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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